book

Related to book: blue book, Book reviews
See:
  • a closed book
  • a turn-up for the book
  • a turn-up for the book(s)
  • a turn-up for the books
  • an open book
  • an open book, he/she is (like an)
  • Are you writing a book?
  • balance the books
  • bankbook
  • be a closed book
  • be an open book
  • be brought to book
  • be in (one's) black books
  • be in (one's) good books
  • be in (someone's) bad books
  • be in someone's black books
  • be in/get into somebody's good/bad books
  • bell, book, and candle
  • bell, book, and candle things that are miraculous or that signal that
  • black book
  • black book, (put) in one's
  • blot (one's) copy book
  • blue book
  • book (on) out
  • book (one) on (something)
  • book (one) through
  • book in
  • book on
  • book on out
  • book out
  • book through
  • book up
  • bring (one) to book
  • bring somebody to book
  • bring someone to book
  • bring to book
  • by the book
  • clear the books
  • close the book on
  • close the book on something
  • close the book(s) on (someone or something)
  • close the books
  • close the books on
  • closed book, a
  • coffee table book
  • coffee-table book
  • cook the accounts
  • cook the books
  • crack a book
  • cuddle up with a (good) book
  • cuddle up with a book
  • curl up with a (good) book
  • dirty joke
  • do (something) by the book
  • do something by the book
  • don't judge a book by its cover
  • double booked
  • every trick in the book
  • get in (someone's) good books
  • get into (someone's) bad books
  • Good Book
  • good books
  • have (one's) nose in a book
  • have (one's) nose in a magazine
  • have more chins than a Chinese phone book
  • have name inscribed in the book of life
  • have nose in a book
  • have your nose in a book, magazine, etc.
  • hit the books
  • in (one's) book
  • in (one's) good books
  • in (someone's) bad books
  • in (someone's) black books
  • in book
  • in my book
  • in one's book
  • in somebody's book
  • in someone's bad books
  • in someone's bad graces
  • in someone's good books
  • in someone's good graces
  • in your book
  • judge a book by its cover, one can't
  • know (someone or something) like a book
  • know every trick in the book
  • know like a book
  • know like a book, to
  • know like the palm of hand
  • like a book
  • little black book
  • make a book
  • make book
  • make book on
  • make book on something
  • nose in a book, have one's
  • not in my book
  • not judge a book by its cover
  • off the books
  • on record
  • on the books
  • on/off the/somebody's books
  • one for the (record) book(s)
  • one for the (record) books
  • one for the book
  • one for the books
  • open book
  • open secret, an
  • pound the books
  • read (one) like a book
  • read from the same hymn book
  • read like a book
  • read somebody like a book
  • read someone like a book
  • read someone like an open book, to
  • rewrite the history books
  • rewrite the record books
  • salt the books
  • sing from the same hymn book
  • sing from the same hymnbook
  • sing from the same songbook
  • sing off the same hymnbook
  • sing off the same songbook
  • suit (one's) book
  • suit someone's book
  • suit your/somebody's book
  • take a leaf from (someone's) book
  • take a leaf out of (one's) book
  • take a leaf out of book
  • take a leaf out of somebody's book
  • take a leaf out of someone's book
  • take a leaf out of someone's book, to
  • take a page from (someone's) book
  • take a page from someone’s book
  • take a page out of (one's) book
  • take a page out of (someone's) book
  • that's a turn-up for the book(s)
  • that's one for the (record) book(s)
  • the Good Book
  • the history books
  • the oldest trick in the book
  • there's a turn-up for the book(s)
  • there's one for (record) the book(s)
  • throw the book at
  • throw the book at (one)
  • throw the book at somebody
  • throw the book at someone
  • throw the book at, to
  • try every trick in the book
  • try, use, etc. every trick in the book
  • use every trick in the book
  • wish book
  • write the book on
  • wrote the book on
  • wrote the book on (something)
  • you can't judge a book by its cover
  • you can't tell a book by its cover
References in classic literature
Another book was opened, and they saw it was entitled, "The Knight of the Cross."
"For the sake of the holy name this book has," said the curate, "its ignorance might be excused; but then, they say, 'behind the cross there's the devil; to the fire with it."
The rest of his acquaintances, not interested in a book on a learned subject, did not talk of it at all.
Only in the Northern Beetle, in a comic article on the singer Drabanti, who had lost his voice, there was a contemptuous allusion to Koznishev's book, suggesting that the book had been long ago seen through by everyone, and was a subject of general ridicule.
He began work on the book the very next morning, and flung himself into it heart and soul.
The binding was of blue velvet, with clasps of silver worked in beautiful arabesque patterns, and with a lock of the same precious metal to protect the book from prying eyes.
It vexes me now to find that I cannot remember how the book came into my hands, or who could have suggested it to me.
These first books we call Manuscripts, from the Latin words manus, a hand, and scribere, to write, for they were all written by hand.
Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all broken-hearted, for he thought it was possible that he had unknowingly upset the ink on the spelling- book himself, in some skylarking bout -- he had denied it for form's sake and because it was custom, and had stuck to the denial from principle.
He forbids me to see any strangers; and he orders me, if I read at all, only to read the lightest and the most amusing books. 'Do nothing, Lady Verinder, to weary your head, or to quicken your pulse'--those were his last words, Drusilla, when he left me to-day."
Jones, on the contrary, whose character was on the outside of generosity, and may perhaps not very unjustly have been suspected of extravagance, without any hesitation gave a guinea in exchange for the book. The poor man, who had not for a long time before been possessed of so much treasure, gave Mr Jones a thousand thanks, and discovered little less of transport in his muscles than Jones had before shown when he had first read the name of Sophia Western.
that the most intimate friendship for the future was inevitable.' A passage in Hawthorne's 'Wonder Book' is noteworthy as describing the number of literary neighbours in Berkshire:--
Of no matter what book he asked the price, it was sure to be one, two, or three roubles.
'Oh, I may take a look at it again by-and-by,' she says indifferently, but nevertheless the probability is that as the door shuts the book opens, as if by some mechanical contrivance.
Thus it was that we lunched together amid the books and birds, in an exquisite solitude a deux; for the ringer of the silver bell had disappeared, having left a dainty meal in readiness--for two.